📢 Binance’s crypto reserves stood at around $165 billion on October 1, representing nearly 69% of the combined reserves held by eight major exchanges, according to CoinMarketCap.

📢 Crypto market sentiment has weakened, with the Fear and Greed Index dropping to 35, its lowest reading since August. This marks a sharp shift from the extreme greed seen just two months ago.

📢 DefiLlama reports that 12 crypto projects and platforms suffered hacks over the past week, with reported losses including:

* Binance: $5.78B
* X100: $4.75M
* Polymarket: $2.7M
* Initia: $2.6M
* Fence Finance: $1.01M
* Bloom Trading Bot: $953K
* zkLink Nova: $783K
* Predict(.)fun: $400K

Other affected platforms include Hifi Finance, Zilliqa X-Bridge, Myriad Markets and Yapeswap.

📢 The Coinbase Premium has fallen to its lowest level in four years, a level last recorded following the FTX collapse in November 2022, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 Tether led crypto-related fee revenue over the past 24 hours with $16.4 million, followed by Tron at $8.1 million and Circle at $6.6 million, according to Token Terminal.

📢 The Coinbase Bitcoin Premium has remained negative for 38 consecutive days, reaching -0.2434%, suggesting US buying demand remains weak.

📢 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded their biggest single-day outflows since June, with more than $643 million withdrawn in one day.

📢 October saw more $ETH enter staking than any other month in Ethereum’s history, setting a new monthly record.

📢 Chainalysis reports that suspected North Korea-linked attacks made up nearly 89% of reported crypto hack losses in 2026, compared with just 15% in 2021.

📢 Silver has nearly erased its gains over the past year, falling back to around $49—the same price it traded at last October.

📢 The Binance hack was bigger than the combined losses from the next 10 largest crypto hacks.

📢 An Ethereum reorg accidentally disrupted North Korea’s laundering of stolen Binance funds. A double refund on a 10 $ETH deposit triggered an emergency pause on THORChain, according to Chainalysis.

📢 Short-term $BTC holders sent over 36,600 BTC to exchanges at a loss within 24 hours after Bitcoin tested $76K, according to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost.

📢 Binance will use half of its SAFU fund to cover hack-related losses while keeping the other 50% in reserve, according to Yi He.

📢 According to a16z, spending on AI tokens has jumped 122%–160% since May, even as their prices have dropped 67%.

📢 Bloomberg strategist Mike McGlone warns that Bitcoin remaining below $80,000 could point to further underperformance compared with US Treasury bonds.

📢 U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs have seen outflows for 23 straight trading sessions, marking their longest streak since launch, according to Glassnode.

📢 Tokenized stocks on Ethereum have surged 170% year over year, reaching $827 million, according to Token Terminal.

📢 The Binance hacker is converting stolen $SOL into $BTC through Relay Protocol after transferring 486,970 $SOL, worth $46.4 million, in the past hour.

📢 Last week’s relative stability has given way to another decline, with $BTC losing $80,000, $ETH extending lower, and $SOL slipping below $100. The focus is now on recovering lost levels rather than expecting immediate continuation higher; a bounce would be encouraging, but holding those gains would provide stronger evidence that the selling is easing.